Lozz196

Good call, I changed the stock tuners on my CIJ & JMJ Mustangs for Hipshot Y tuners, much smaller & lighter.

If it were a bass I liked and wanted to keep & play regularly then yes I’d spend on it to get it where I wanted it. I know full well from experience if it didn’t sound as I wanted I’d rarely pick it up, so if I were in your situation to me that would be £600 well spent overall rather than £400 wasted.

I’m afraid I just can’t take Beck seriously, solely because he is pretty much the double of a mate from back in the 80s, whenever I see him I just think “Alan, what are you doing up there singing & being cool, that’s just not you”. Because Alan really was not cool - as of course neither was I (and am still not and unlikely to ever be). Great clip though, band look like they’re really having a blast, JMJs bass is great.

All going ahead though a 2 year wait, counting down the days already.

Just got home from rehearsal with my instrumental classic rock band. Used my Fender JMJ Mustang strung with Elixir nickel rounds into the rehearsal rooms Ampeg SVT350 & 810, sounded great. I was very pleased to be using the JMJ again, over the last couple of years I’ve developed arthritis in my left thumb and my playing style was always thumb hooked over the neck, true punk style, so I’ve been working on my playing technique to the classic thumb on the back of the neck, and am pleased that after a 4hr rehearsal no issues with my thumb. I had been using my Fender Japan Mustangs and although they’re great I prefer the sound of the JMJ, more Precisiony. Band wise we’ve now got about 90 mins of material and all sounded really good, overall a great rehearsal.

I think I`ve only had a couple of set-ups where the cabs stack together with the plastic corner things, but in each case, due to more than a bit of ODC in always wanting to use the same cabs in the same position I`ve put feet on the one I`ve chosen to be the bottom one.

Hmmm, I suppose I’ve been lucky then. Admittedly only bought two items from Reverb, both basses, one collected the other posted. Both were good transactions, can’t remember how well the posted one was packaged which to me says must have been good as I’m sure I’d remember a clown-show.

That Peavey would probably have its power listed as something like 500/600 watts at 8ohms so would more than likely be safe, especially as I can`t see you needing to run it at full-pelt.

Yep, I had a 78 Precision that was around 7.5lbs, and a 77 that was 10.5lbs. And a mate of mine had a 77 that was exactly the same as mine except it was 14lbs. We used to joke that he stood on stage like The Ramones not to be punk but because that`s what the weight of his bass did to him.

Back in the mid 80s a mate of mines brother used to fly over to the US, scour the junk shops and bring 2 Gibson Les Pauls back with him. The profit he made paid for the trips over there plus a nice little bit extra.

Pretty much like online shopping from supermarkets, order lemons or lemon juice and if they`re out of stock they send lemon scented bleach.

Given the weight of that set up I think felling trees is more the solution 🤣

From the clips up on YouTube from recent gigs poor Bruce doesn’t look in good shape at all, even his playing seems a tad laboured and lacking intensity.

Quality

Yeah I’m down to the 45-100 Elixir Nickels as well, and on short scale basses so less tension than regular scale. Great strings.

Mono Vertigo & M80 go for around that used, imo worth keeping an eye out for one.

I’ve worked on doing the same Dave, low action, lighter touch and lighter gauge picks, all work towards my hands taking less of a battering when playing. I think joining my current non-gigging classic rock band has steered me this way, with my old technique & bass set up I wouldn’t have been able to play the songs.

Looks really nice

I’m 59 and up until a few years back yes I used to fret hard (and play hard, with fairly high action and high tension strings).

Providing the blend is on full I’d say Tech21 preamps all add in a lot of their own voicing when set flat.

Nice little amps and have a good rich tone to them.

I tried but the bass needed customs forms completing and despite several calls to HM Customs and Parcelforce asking for assistance as to what exactly was needed the only response was “look online”. So I didn’t get my bass. Quite why someone couldn’t have said “give me your e-mail address and I’ll send over the form you need to submit” is beyond me, but then having worked for a govt owned business for years maybe I shouldn’t be so surprised.

Well I’ve spent the last year or so changing my technique on my fretting hand, always used to do the thumb-wrap over the neck and now arthritis has set in that hurts, so now trying to play with thumb straight on back of neck. Seems to have worked, something I’m rather pleased about.

Agree with the thoughts above, mod it, play and enjoy it, and def keep the original parts.